El1 - Assistant Director, Ministerial Liaison

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
11.59pm AEDT, Sunday 26 October 2025

**The opportunity we have available**:
The Government Services Branch is seeking to fill the role of EL1 Assistant Director within the Ministerial Liaison Team. This role provides direction and high level support to the Ministerial Liaison Team and Ministerial Offices through the management of a range of complex operational mechanisms that support the department's DLO Program.

The Government Services Branch delivers essential services and expert advice with integrity, supporting internal and external stakeholders to achieve department goals. The Branch plays a critical role in upholding accountability, transparency, and effective communication between the department, ministerial offices and key stakeholders by providing a range of professional services, including ministerial, parliamentary, Cabinet and Freedom of Information. There are 3 sections in the Branch:

- The **Freedom of Information Section**has overall responsibility for managing the department’s FOI requests, internal reviews, and Information Commissioner reviews; and supports portfolio Minister’s offices and agencies in relation to the processing of FOI requests.
- The **Parliamentary Services** **Section** assists and tracks the department’s involvement with Parliamentary processes and committees.
- The **Ministerial Services and Cabinet** **Section** oversees the management and administration of ministerial workflows, and coordinates the portfolio’s Cabinet business and classified material.

Government Services Branch is undergoing a structured change management process, aimed at improving service delivery, enhancing internal processes, and strengthening capability across teams. This transformation is focused on modernising systems, streamlining workflows, fostering a supportive culture of continuous improvement, and aligning operations with strategic departmental priorities.

**What will you do?**:

- decisions made in relation to the daily operational management of the Ministerial Liaison team and DLOs
- effectively implementing, maintaining and continuously improving the department's DLO program, including the management of recruitment, training, risk management, reporting and compliance
- leading the ongoing development of the department's DLO Framework, guidance materials, procedures, policies and guidance to ensure we are delivering the best operational outcomes for the department and our ministerial offices
- setting clear priorities for the section and managing time and resources effectively
- providing outstanding client services to ministerial offices, the DLO cohort and departmental stakeholders, and driving a culture of continuous improvement
- ensuring processes, procedures and systems are supporting the delivery of services to ministerial offices, and effectively managing the resolution of issues as they arise
- providing strategic direction and advice to senior executives and key stakeholders on DLO activities.

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**Who are we looking for?**:

- proven experience in stakeholder liaison roles, with strong interpersonal, negotiation, collaboration and coordination skills
- proven organisation skills and attention to detail, including the ability to proactively anticipate priorities, identify issues and provide effective solutions
- resilience and flexibility, with the ability to deliver quality work within tight or highly evolving deadlines
- sound verbal and written communication skills
- effective judgement, with the ability to think strategically with ministerial expectations and departmental priorities in mind
- highly developed leadership and people management skills, including the ability to lead, mentor, coach and build a positive team culture
- experience in planning, managing and embedding change
- effective management of confidential and sensitive issues with discretion and professionalism
- experience in managing the interface between a department and their ministerial offices would be highly regarded.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**:
Minimum requirements for this role include:

- Proven experience in stakeholder liaison roles, with strong interpersonal, negotiation, collaboration and coordination skills.
- Proven organisational skills and effective attention to detail, including the ability to proactively anticipate priorities, identify issues and provide effective solutions.
- Sound verbal and written communication skills.

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public